Jill Stein Has Got to Be Kidding

It is a busy time at the intersection of Fantasy Street and Purity Boulevard. ("Left Turn Only" reads the sign.) Dr. Jill Stein's knowledge of How Things Really Work is getting another serious airing, this time on a podcast put together by the gang at Tiger Beat On The Potomac. After making a fairly strong case that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a flawed vessel for a progressive, but that Donald Trump is eight kinds of dangerous crazy, Dr. Jill's civics train left the rails once again.

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But her contempt has a more cutting quality when she talks about Clinton. She mocks Trump as braying menace; Stein thinks he's, at heart, a bumbler who will be neutered by his own party after being elected. But it's Clinton who poses the greater threat, in Stein's estimation, because she knows how to move the levers of Washington. "Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress," Stein explains. "Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, won't… Hillary has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his."

I am sorry, but this is just as nutty as anything that has emerged from the piehole of El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago. On what does she base her conclusion that a President Trump will be neutered by the Republicans in Congress? (We must stipulate that, if he were to win the presidency, the Republicans also would maintain their majorities in both houses of Congress and that means, hello, Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown!) They would pass the bills and he would sign just about anything they wanted him to sign.

I can't see any issue on which he's campaigned that would put a Republican congressional majority on the opposite side. But, of course, HRC would simply cave on everything the Republicans wanted, and she's a closet conservative anyway. This is yapping from Opposite World and it does not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone.